Double Mountain has become an Oregon favorite in its five years and they’re celebrating their first big anniversary in best Hood River style with a full day of great beer and live music, headlined by rock legends the Meat Puppets at about 8:30 p.m. There’ll be great beer, too: old favorites and special Double Mountain reserve beers, including the debut of a special bourbon-barrel-aged brown ale, plus some St. Patrick’s Day specials from Taproom kitchen. FORT GEORGE’S FIFTHNoon, Sunday, Fort George Brewery + Public House, Astoria;

They'll be celebrating five years with an all day party and release of the XVIth Chapel: Roses on Roses in 22oz bottles. These will be available from the Public House and Taproom on Sunday, and shortly thereafter throughout Oregon and Washington. The party Sunday will also include live music, raffles every hour, a scavenger hunt (first hint will drop on facebook), $1 off pints with Fort George gear, cake and beer.

Here is the word from co-owner/brewmaster, Jack Harris: "Five Years ago we opened a little brewpub in the downstairs corner of The Fort George Building in Historic Downtown Astoria. A small group of us went to work brewing beer, flipping burgers and creating a space for people to meet and enjoy. Today we take up nearly an entire city-block, three buildings, run two breweries, two bars, an event space and canning line with almost 50 hard working employees.

How do you commemorate such a milestone? With beer of course. A beer that has been in the planning for almost as long as we have been in operation. A strong west-coast IPA fermented with a ravenous Belgian yeast strain is allowed to condition in Four Roses Bourbon Barrels until the oak and esters become one. This is blended back into a bright tank, a perfect mixture that entails stringent quality control (aka tasting) until it is just right. The entire elixir sits on ten pounds of fresh rose petals and more hops (of course) until imbued with a subtle floral essence.

While we are totally committed to the quality of canned beer, a special occasion like this affords an opportunity to show off some special packaging. Glass is beautiful and we have created a beautiful beer to put inside it. Rose on Roses is our Bourbon Barrel Aged Belgian Style India Pale Ale. Our expression of what a brewery can accomplish in five short, but intense years. May we still be pleasing your palate in another five."

You can choose from among more than 30 beers from 14 Oregon craft brewers and sample some local chefs’ presentations, purchase a variety of local food specialties and enjoy the entertainment. The event is a collaboration between the Seaside Chamber of Commerce and the Oregon Brewers Guild and also features a home brew competition.

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If the pipes are NOT calling and you’d rather hear that high lonesome sound instead, then Beaterville is the place for you, with a good selection of craft beer and bluegrass from SugarPine, The Sleepy Eyed Johns, and Wayward Vessel.

Four courses paired with brewer Ben Edmunds’ innovative beers including a Bourbon-Barrel Tripel to be featured with the main course, a new French farmhouse ale and the last keg of the brewery’s Sourdough Ale.

The PUB folks were looking for something a little different than a traditional homebrew club when they started the Brewers Collective, instead, they wanted to create a community of like-minded brewers, professional, amateur and aspiring. They’ve succeeded and now have an e-mail list of nearly 300 brewers. The monthly events are a great chance to bring beers you’ve brewed, sample beers from other brewers and spend the evening talking about beer and brewing.

In case you can't make it out to Double Mountain’s anniversary party Saturday in Hood River, the Double Mountain crew will bring a bit of the party to Portland with some special beers, including Ferocious Five Bourbon-Barrel Brown; Das Boot (a dry-hopped altbier); Imperial Red Ale; Cask Hop Lava; andBlack Irish Stout on nitro.

What happens when you take La Trappe Quadrupel and age it in a variety of oak barrels? You get a beer that is complex, beautiful, sophisticated and very, very limited.The brewers at La Trappe use barrels previously used for wine, port, whiskey, and sherry to impart a broad range of flavors and then blend these beers together at bottling to make a unique expression of Quadrupel, never to be repeated. Taste four different barrel agings of this rare Trappist beer and compare with the un-oaked version.